BW: Red Hat, Inc. Initial Public Offering of 6,000,000 Shares Priced At $14.00 Per Share | Linux Today

BW: Red Hat, Inc. Initial Public Offering of 6,000,000 Shares Priced At $14.00 Per Share

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 11, 1999

“Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ-NM:RHAT) announced today the initial
public offering of its common stock
on the Nasdaq National
Market under the trading symbol RHAT.

The initial public offering price of the 6,000,000 shares
offered by Red Hat was priced at $14.00 per share by the managing
underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs & Co., with Thomas Weisel
Partners LLC, Hambrecht & Quist LLC and E*OFFERING Corp. acting
as co-managers. The Company has granted the underwriters options to
purchase an aggregate of up to 900,000 additional ordinary shares
to cover over allotments, if any.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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